This research aimed to identify the incidence of injuries in competitive tennis players and to relate this incidence to the age; to correlate the injury to the length of practice and to identify the most affected body part. Fifty tennis players have been interviewed, the average age was 30 years old, the average length of practice was 13,9 years; 56% of the athletes reported injuries in the last two years resulting from tennis practice. There was a statistically bordering dependence relation when associating the age to the injury incidence (p = 0,045), it has been noticed that 78% of the tennis players under 17 years of age had incidence of injury. The most injured body part was the elbow, shoulder and knee.
Tennis; athletic injuries; incidence
